Witham polluted by sewage 321 times in 2023 - lasting 2,783 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Witham in 2023
13 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
321 sewage dumps
2,783 h duration
That's 3.87 months. 6.2 times a week, on average
Change Over Time

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Witham in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 2 of the total 20 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Brain WHITE NOTLEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 101 1,298 100
Anglian Water Virley Brook Salcottcreek TIPTREE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 40 342 100
Anglian Water River Colne BROOK ROAD PS 28 255 100
Anglian Water Tidal River Chelmer WITHAM STW 29 217 100
Anglian Water Tollesbury Fleet To Blackwater TOLLESBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 26 209 100
Anglian Water Layer Brook TOLLESHUNT KNIGHTS FORGE PS 25 151 100
Anglian Water Roman River COPFORD WATER RECYCLING CCENTRE 19 108 100
Anglian Water Roman River LAYER DE-LA-HAYE STW 11 72 97.8
Anglian Water Penny'S Brook River Blackwater SCHOOL ROAD PS 10 41 100
Anglian Water Bowstead Brook River Blackwate TOLLESHUNT D'ARCY STW 18 41 99.6
Anglian Water River Ter HATFIELD PEVEREL CRABBS HILL PS 6 23 87.2
Anglian Water Layer Brook GORSE LANE TERMINAL PUMPING STATION 6 19 100
Anglian Water River Blackwater COGGESHALL WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 2 1 100
Anglian Water River Blackwater OUTLET AT GREY'S MILL 0 0 100
Anglian Water . EAST ST COGGESHALL 0 0 49.15
Anglian Water River Colne THE HOME FARM AREA 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Colne THE HOME FARM AREA 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Blackwater COGGESHALL EAST STREET RO 18 CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water Spicketts Brook Blackwater GREAT TOTHAM STW 0 0 50
Anglian Water . STATION RD KELVEDON 0 0 50

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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